"NCAVP has already responded to seven homicides of transgender women of color within the first two months of the year," said New York City Anti-Violence Project's Executive Director Beverly Tillery. "As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives. The moment to act is now."

The NCAVP reported the murders of 23 trans and gender non-conforming people in 2016.